Feb 24 1968

From The Space Library

Listen to an interview on this day with Chris Kraft on Press Conference USA (27MB)

House Government Operations Committee said in report that despite acute need to eliminate U.S. balance of payments deficit, Govern­ment continued to make grants for foreign research projects of about $20 million yearly-more than $15 million being spent in developed countries. Committee recommended rigorous scrutiny of dollar-financed projects in Japan, Canada, U.K., Sweden, Italy, Australia, France, and West Germany. (W Star, 2/24/68, B9)

U.S.S.R. inaugurated fifth permanent Antarctic research station, Bellings­hausen station on King George Island, according to Moscow newspa­pers. U.S.S.R. thus joined U.K., Argentina, and Chile in operating sci­entific bases in northernmost and warmest part of Antarctica. (NYT, 3/6/68, 49)

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